Connection Parenting Recommended Books

"A parenting philosophy is relevant only to the extent that it
promotes parenting practices which support secure bonding."

These books promote birth and parenting
practices that support strong parent-child bonds:

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Here is a youtube link to a 55 minute keynote address given by Pam Leo:

"Healing The Feeling Child"

This talk is essentially Chapter 3 from her Connection Parenting book.

Pregnancy, Birth & Bonding
 
Parenting & Optimal Nurturing
 
Behavior & Discipline
 
Education & Activities
 
Communication & Relationships
 
Personal Growth
 
Magazines & Periodicals

Pregnancy, Birth & Bonding

• The Continuum Concept
        by Jean Liedloff
   
  
• The Vital Touch: How Intimate
  Contact With Your Baby Leads to
  Happier, Healthier Development
        by Sharon Heller, Ph.D.
   
  
• Untouched: The Need for Genuine
  Affection in an Impersonal World
        by Mariana Caplan, M.A.
   
  
• Touching: The Human
  Significance of the Skin
        by Ashley Montagu
   
  
• Infant Massage:
  A Handbook for Loving Parents
        by Vimala Schneider McClure
   
  
• From One Child to Two
        by Judy Dunn
   
  
• Welcoming Your Second Baby
        by Vicki Lansky
   
  
• The Baby Book
        by William and Martha Sears
   
  
• The Birth Book
        by William and Martha Sears
   
  
• The Pregnancy Book
        by William and Martha Sears
   
  
• Nighttime Parenting
        by William Sears, Mary White
   
  
• Mind Over Labor
        by Carl Jones
   
  
• The Birth Partner
        by Penny Simkin
   
  

• Attachment Parenting: Instinctive
  Care for Your Baby and Young Child
        by Katie Allison Granju
   
  
• The Family Bed
        by Tine Thevenin
   
  
• Magical Child
        by Joseph Chilton Pearce
   
  
• The Aware Baby:
  A New Approach To Parenting
        by Aletha J. Solter, Ph.D.
   
  
• Birth Without Violence
        by Frederick LeBoyer
   
  
• Gentle Birth Choices:
  A Guide To Making Informed Decisions
  About Birthing Centers, Birth Attendants,
  Water Birth, Home Birth, And
  Hospital Birth
        by Barbara Harper, R.N.
   
  
• Immaculate Deception II
  Myths, Magic and Birth
        by Suzanne Arms
   
  
• Birthing from Within:
  An Extra-Ordinary Guide to
  Childbirth Preparation
        by Pam England, Rob Horowitz
   
  
• Spiritual Midwifery
        by Ina May Gaskin
   
  
• Our Babies, Ourselves:
  How Biology And Culture
  Shape The Way We Parent
        by Meridith F. Small
   
  
• What Your Doctor May Not Tell
  You About Circumcision:
  Untold Facts on America's Most Widely Performed
  and Most Unnecessary Surgery
        by Paul M. Fleiss, MD, and
        Frederick M. Hodges, D.Phil.
   
  

Parenting & Optimal Nurturing

• The Continuum Concept
        by Jean Liedloff
   
  
• Playful Parenting
        by Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D.
   
  
• Raising A Thinking Child
        by Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D.
   
  
• Raising a Thinking Preteen
  The "I Can Problem Solve" Program
  for 8- to 12- Year-Olds
        by Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D.
   
  
• The Seven Habits of
  Highly Effective Families
        by Steven R. Covey
   
  
• Parent-Teen Breakthrough:
  The Relationship Approach
        by Myra Kirshenbaum
        and Charles Foster
   
  
• Your Child's Self Esteem
        by Dorothy C. Briggs
   
  
• The Vital Touch: How Intimate
  Contact With Your Baby Leads to
  Happier, Healthier Development
        by Sharon Heller, Ph.D.
   
  
• Untouched: The Need for Genuine
  Affection in an Impersonal World
        by Mariana Caplan, M.A.
   
  
• Touching: The Human
  Significance of the Skin
        by Ashley Montagu
   
  
• Infant Massage:
  A Handbook for Loving Parents
        by Vimala Schneider McClure
   
  
• Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons
  from the Myths of Boyhood
        by William Pollack and Mary Pipher
   
  
• The Aware Baby:
  A New Approach To Parenting
        by Aletha J. Solter, Ph.D.
   
  
• Helping Young Children Flourish
        by Aletha J. Solter, Ph.D.
   
  
• Mitten Strings for God:
  Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry
        by Katrina Kenison
        and Melanie Marder Parks
   
  

• When Your Kids Push Your Buttons
        by Bonnie Harris
   
  
• I Love You Rituals
        by Becky A. Bailey, Ph.D.
   
  
• Magical Child
        by Joseph Chilton Pearce
   
  
• Theraplay: Helping Parents and
  Children Build Better Relationships
  Through Attachment-Based Play
        by Ann M. Jernberg
        Phyllis B. Booth
   
  
• The Family Bed
        by Tine Thevenin
   
  
• Raising Resilient Children
        by Robert Brooks, Ph.D.
        and Sam Goldstein, Ph.D.
   
  
• Nighttime Parenting
        by William Sears, Mary White
   
  
• Beyond the Rainbow Bridge:
  Nurturing our children
  from birth to seven
        by Barbara Patterson
   
  
• The Irreducible Needs Of
  Children: What Every Child Must
  Have To Grow, Learn and Flourish
        by T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
        and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.
   
  
Listening To Children
(series of 8 small booklets)
      by Patty Wipfler
Crying
Healing Children's Fears
Setting Limits With Children
Tantrums and Indignation
Reaching For Your Angry Child
Supporting Adolescents
Playlistening
Special Time
 

• Everyday Blessings:
  The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
        by Myla and John Kabot-Zinn
   
  
• Siblings Without Rivalry
        by Faber & Mazlish
   
  
• Child/Family Wellness
        by Meryn G. Callander
        & John W. Travis, M.D.
        (Free online book)
   
  

Behavior & Discipline

• It's all about WE:
  Rethinking Discipline Using Restitution
        by Diane Gossen
   
  
• Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline:
  The 7 Basic Skills for Turning
  Conflict into Cooperation
        by Becky A. Bailey, Ph.D.
   
  
• For Your Own Good:
  Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing
  and the Roots of Violence
        by Alice Miller
   
  
• High Risk:
  Children Without
  A Conscience
        by Magid and McKelvey
   
  
• Tears and Tantrums:
  What to Do When
  Babies and Children Cry
        by Aletha J. Solter, Ph.D.
   
  
• Building The Bonds of Attachment:
  Awakening Love In Deeply
  Troubled Children
        by Daniel A. Hughes
   
  
• Theraplay: Helping Parents and
  Children Build Better Relationships
  Through Attachment-Based Play
        by Ann M. Jernberg
        Phyllis B. Booth
   
  

• Playful Parenting
        by Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D.
   
  
• Punished by Rewards:
  The Trouble with Gold Stars,
  Incentive Plans, A's, Praise,
  and Other Bribes
        by Alfie Kohn
   
  
• Raising Your Spirited Child
        by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
   
  
• Kids, Parents and Power Struggles
        by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
   
  
• The Explosive Child:
  A New Approach for
  Understanding and Parenting
  Easily Frustrated, Chronically
  Inflexible Children
        by Ross W. Greene
   
  
• The Out-Of-Sync Child:
  Recognizing and Coping With
  Sensory Integration Dysfunction
        by Carol Stock Kranowitz
        and Larry B. Silver
   
  
• Attachment Play:
  How To Solve Children's
  Behavior Problems With
  Play, Laughter and Connection
        by Aletha J. Solter
   
  

Education & Activities

• Miseducation:
  Preschoolers at Risk
        by David Elkind
   
  
• Learning All The Time
        by John Holt
   
  
• Escape From Childhood
        by John Holt
   
  
• Dumbing Us Down
        by John Taylor Gatto
   
  
• Walking On Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution
        by Derrick Jensen
   
  
• Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School
        by Grace Llewellyn & Amy Silver
   
  
• The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
        by Grace Llewellyn
   
  

 

 

• Seven Times the Sun:
  Guiding Your Child Through
  the Rhythms of the Day
        by Shea Darian
   
  
• The Children's Year: Crafts & Clothes
  for Children and Parents to Make
        by Stephanie Cooper,
        Christine Fynes-Clinton
        and Marye Rowling
   
  
• Earthways: Simple Environmental
  Activities for Young Children
        by Carol Petrash, Donald Cook
   
  
• Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots:
  Gardening Together With Children
        by Sharon Lovejoy
   
  
• Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
        by John Taylor Gatto
   
  

Communication and Relationships

• Getting the Love You Want
        by Harville Hendrix
   
  

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen
  and Listen So Kids Will Talk
        by Faber & Mazlish
   
  

Personal Growth

• The Power of Now
        by Eckhart Tolle
   
  

• Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting
        by Lynn Grabhorn
   
  

Magazines and Periodicals

• Mothering Magazine
        Edited by Peggy O'Mara
   
  

• Hand In Hand Parenting
  Nurturing the parent-child connection:
        Patty Wipfler
   
  

• The Natural Child Project
  The Journal of the Canadian Society
  for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
   
  

• Kindred Magazine
  Natural Parenting
  One Family - One World
   
  

If you know of a book that supports
secure bonding and Connection Parenting, please
contact Carmine and he will add it to this resource list.